May 1, 2012

Occupy Wall Street's call for a general strike to mark International Workers Day got off to a slow start on Tuesday, with sparse gatherings at a handful of spots around a rainy New York City.

Here in Madison... there's a noon deadline at the long-term Occupy site, as noted earlier today. My reporter on the scene says: The tents are mostly gone. No trouble and not that many people. Fewer than 25, and some are probably cops. People seem to be leaving, packing up.

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Need to gin up some protests. Fast. Otherwise, the protesters, and, more importantly, the politicians and unions who backed the protesters, last year will look silly. And, they all need these protests and protesters to gin up enthusiasm to counter that of the right who have the economy, unemployment, government spending and borrowing out of control, feckless foreign and military policies, rampant corruption, etc. to incite their base this summer and fall. They need something, some spontaneity, to counter the appearance that the movement of the 99% is funded and orchestrated by the 1% to take the focus off of the rampant failures of the Obama Administration and Dems in Congress.

Revolutions have political ideologies, such as the Democracy ideology that was sweeping the world's Kingdoms in 1848 and in 2011. It has been America's policy to spread that ideology under a rubric of "human rights."

But actual revolutions start every time happen when people are starving and have nothing left to lose.

That is why Obama has been carefully setting up an energy strangulation complete Fantasy Environmental reasons to artificially create starvation with $10/gal. gasoline within the USA to get a Revolution into gear here.

The Cleveland occupiers released a statement (after much twinkling I'm sure) that admitted the wannabe bombers were "associated" with but not "representative" of the Occupy Cleveland group.

I'm waiting for a follow-up press release from them saying they now realize that someone in a large crowd of Tea Partiers yelling "nigger" isn't representative of the entire Tea Party movement, but I'll not hold my breath. In related news, the late Mr. Breitbart's offer for cash-money to anyone that has video of that little incident actually happening is still woefully unclaimed.

At least you got the lazy Occupiers. Here in SF they rampaged through the Mission last night, breaking windows and vandalizing cars (predictable official line: "Wasn't us! It was black-bloc anarchists! Agents provocateur!").

What's really sad is that the Mission is one of the most left-wing neighborhoods in all of SF, and the businesses they wrecked are almost all locally-owned small shops.

You would not believe how much Occupy is hated by Missionites right now. Those geniuses managed to alienate the people who should be their core supporters.

This is an oxymoron since most of the people "striking" probably don't actually, you know, work.

I’ve never understood what the difference was between a student going “on strike” and just ditching class. If I were a professor and a bunch of my students decided to ditch class the same day, I’d have a pop quiz worth 25 percent of their final grade.

Blue@9, funny how it's always someone else's fault, some infiltrator, some "agent provocateur" (sounds so much better when ya say it en Francaise), some fiendish PLANT. In addition to random agents of provocation, the Occutards are blaming (wait for it) the police because the police were (wait for it) seen in the area and yet no one got arrested. (Which is SOP for the SFPD where Occutards are concerned.) But of course!

The bridge they were planning to blow up in Cleveland goes from one suburb to another across the Cuyahoga River Valley National Park. The bridge carries a state highway over an area of hiking paths and a scenic railway. Desipicable. Details here.

Also, the Cleveland Occupiers didn't just plan to blow up the bridge, they actually went through with their plan:

The alleged plotters researched explosives and obtained what they thought was C-4 explosives. The material, in fact, was harmless and the public was never at risk, because the men got it from the informant, officials said.

The men planted the fake explosives at the base of the bridge, armed them, went to a remote spot and "entered the codes that they thought would blow up the bridge with innocent people traveling over it," Dettelbach said.

Obama's attempts at running Federal law enforcement has resulted in the Fast and Furious fiasco ( 100's of murdered Mexicans from ATF supplied guns) and the Secret Service who can't protect themselves from outraged whores while protecting the President.

One of these days a group of dumb anarchists/Occupiers will pick the wrong business to fuck with, for instance a Korean-owned shop, and then it'll be interesting to hear whether Occupy claims the corpses as one of theirs.

One of these days a group of dumb anarchists/Occupiers will pick the wrong business to fuck with, for instance a Korean-owned shop, and then it'll be interesting to hear whether Occupy claims the corpses as one of theirs.

President Obama is in Afghanistan taking care Taliban terrorists, otherwise he would take care of that. He can't be in all places at once. Sheesh!

The local TV news has sent Danger Boy (reporter Jim Foreman) down to Westlake Center. Right now, it's bunch of people milling around in the rain. He's trying to make it sound ominous "We don't know how this will end tonight."

This is actually a pretty good assignment for Danger Boy. They usually send him up to the top of the Space Needle during a storm.

Oh...yeah, and you can't forget his fist fight during the WTO riots. He was the last man standing!! Go Danger Boy!!

Most of the excitement was this afternoon, and they broke the windows at Starbucks, Niketown, and a couple of banks. They break the same windows every couple of years. I think they have a list.

They also doodled with spray cans on private cars parked on the side of the street. Most of the time, we find that the anarchists are recruited from Olympia, Portland and Eugene.

Our current mayor, Mayor McGinn has cancelled his speech at Westlake Center, and he has returned to the Emergency Police Situation Room. He's not going to be re-elected either.